I was reading some reviews, and I was surprised to see many of the negative reviews citing misogyny and other "problematic content" as the reason for their low ratings. While I understand that many readers prefer books to be escapist fantasies and would rather not deal with real-life issues such as bigotry during their free time, I don't understand the growing sentiment that disagreeing with the morals of a book's characters makes the book inherently bad or unenjoyable.

The Princess Bride, in particular, is heavily satirical. I read it as portraying misogyny in order to critique society and the fantasy and romance genres, specifically at the time the book was written. Of course, satirical intent does not exempt a book from criticism, and those who didn't like the book aren't wrong for disagreeing with my interpretation. But I do wonder if the pervading moral rigidity of the reading community (and society at large) is preventing readers from considering this and similar books from a different perspective.

As the title asks what is a series you never finished and why? I remember reading book 1 of Red Queen and being so disappointed with the ending that I promised myself I wouldn't read the rest of the series. So I went and searched about my favorite character's (Maven) ending and well it wasn't what I expected. 😭 This feels like such a bad reason but I just can't get myself to do it. 🤷‍♀️ Does anybody else have stupid reasons? Edit: I wrote title wrong. 🥲

I am ignoring my tbr rn. What are the books you think deserve more hype on pg specifically?

I'd say midnight bargain by Polk. It's the only romance book I've seen have an aroace important character with a happy ending. 🥹 Also the magic system is chef kiss

Navigating with you by Jeremy Whitley is a graphic novel romance between two girls united by the love of manga. And one of them is terrified of people finding out she's disabled.

Also Banewreaker by Jacqueline Carey. It's a duology that's reimagining of LOTR from Sauron's POV that contains the best romance I've seen in a while.

hieeeee fellow 🫛🐝s 🥰 let’s put those stats to good use!! my question for you today is what is the most pages read and/or hours listened to in one day for you so far this year?? feel free to put what your most read day was this month too!!

i’ll go first:

for this month: july 14th most pages read - 736 (🤯) july 5th most minutes listened - 444

year to date: june 22nd 597 minutes & july 14th 736 pages :3

I need some help. I thought some other people might need it too.

For those who don't know, HRCYED is a reading challenge created by QWORDY. It is a very hard year-long challenge. Link HERE

I'm struggling to find books for 2 prompts, if anyone has suggestion it would be most helpful! I have included the prompt rules too.

Familial terms in the title - This must be five DIFFERENT familial terms. No boyfriend/girlfriend and husband/wife don't count. i.e Brother, sister, uncle, father... etc.

Numerical Titles - You must do the words one through ten plus one more of a random number. Yes, you may use the words translated into other languages, you may not use "Vol. 1" for manga/comics, etc. Must be the TITLE.

If anyone has a prompt they are struggling with, please feel free to ask below, and I'll see if I can help. Also, thank you in advance to anyone who helps. ❤️